Make it a trifecta of bad economic news - The Dow closed down 315.79, or 2.51%. February marks the fourth consecutive month that the Dow has lost ground, the worst performance since 2002. Prices for municipal bonds, bank loans and high-yield debt also tumbled.

From the inimitable Oliver Willis (like Kryptonite to stupid) we learn that McCain's spiritual adviser wants to imprison adulterers. Oliver asks the obvious question...Will he start with John Sidney McCain? (With a tip o' the hat to Pam's House Blend)1% doesn't sound like much - unless you are talking about the percentage of the United States population that is incarcerated. Then it sounds like we have lost our collective freakin' mind. Can we get over our obsession with punishment and stop locking people up for consensual crimes? WFB and Ron Paul at least got it right on the idiotic war on drugs. I live in the inner city, I can tell you with absolute certainty that we not only aren't winning it, it is unwinnable - at least the way they are fighting it.

You could have knocked me over with a feather when I woke up this morning to learn that the Department of Agriculture took the stunning and unprecedented step of refusing to cooperate with the GAO. "You are hereby instructed not to meet with any member of the (Government Accountability Office) today, or until this matter is resolved," Michael Watts, a top attorney with the USDA wrote in an email to employees. What kind of egregious behavior precipitated this? Were they holding a rave in the conference room and making paper hats of the financial reports? No. Turns out they were were seeking information for an ongoing audit of Agriculture's civil rights office and the handling of discrimination complaints. To be precise, they were investigating allegations that the department had previously provided false information for the audit.Pale Rider has more.

Northrup Grumman and Airbus have secured a $30-40 billion contract to replace the Air Force's aging fleet of air-refueling tankers. Congresscritters in 20 states are heaving sighs of relief - they have brought home the job-creating bacon in an election year and a tight economy - Pat Roberts and the rest of the delegation from Kansas, and the Senators and Congressmen from Washington state are not among them. Boeing was the big loser and Boeing is a huge employer in both states.

Did no one ever tell this woman not to borrow trouble? Lots of people are going to call me a bad Liberal for this, but oh well...I'm going to go there anyway. Cal State - East Bay has terminated a Quaker math instructor after six weeks on the job because she inserted the word "non-violently" into her state-mandated "Oath of Allegiance" to the Constitutions of the nation and the state of California. If she was being drafted into service, I would soooo have her back. But since the oath is not for military service, but state employment, and the odds of Cal State - East Bay asking her to take up arms and fight are virtually nil, I think she is just being silly and have no sympathy at all. My grandma could never understand why they call it common sense when it is so rare, and she was so right.

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